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Hopefully you have begun your garden. Maybe most of your plants are in the ground. Maybe you have planted and things are beginning to grow. Now you need to maintain the space. Now is the time for watering, staking, mulching.

Seedling or seeds? Which is the best choice for your garden? It’s certainly easier to plant a vegetable garden by buying little plants and placing them gently into rich soil with your own green thumbs. Some seeds require planting in a protected place and transplanting and thinning. Some seeds are more trouble than others. The seeds that are super small or those that take months to mature from seed call for a gardener with a lot of patience. Choosing to use some seed in your garden will most likely add quite a bit more variety to what you have in your plot.

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